Camera with solid bellows



March 1,1938. T, TAJiMA 2,109,807

CAMERA WITH SOLID BELLOWS Filed Oct. 6, 1936 Patented l, 1-938 cmnswrrn SOLID BELLOWS Toyoiiro Taiina, Bib e-elm, lingo-ken, Japan Application October 8, 1936, Serial No. 104,328

In Japan July 11, 1080 IClahn.

This invention relates to improvements in a camera with solid bellows. and particularly to the construction of the bellows.

The main object of this invention is to provide bellows made of two or more square frames slidably and telescopically fitted one by one, and the packings placed in the slidable contacting surface between adjacent frames to prevent rays from stealing into the camera can be easily re-- placed without requiring the use of special tools.

The drawing shows the detailed construction of this invention. Fig. l is a part sectional elevation of a camera according to this invention.

Fig.2isasectionalviewonthelineIf-Ifof Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional view of a contacting part between adjacent frames.

Inthedrawing, Iisthefrontframeofacamera in which are provided with lenses and other devices, and a frame 2 of the bellows is fixed thereto. Frames 2, 3 and 4 are made of ebonite,

resinous compound, non-transparent celluloid, light metal or the like, and have an oblong section, each corner being preferably made in a smooth curvature. Their dimensions are such 2.1 that they telescopically fit one by one and can be closely slid with each other. Each frame has frame. This recess servesto receive a packing material such as woolen yarn to shut of! rays which may steal into the camera. 8 is a thin metallic cover plate detachably fixed to the surface of the outer fiange, which serves 'to keep the 5 packing material in the recess. This plate is fixed to the fiange with set screws and faces to the back of the camera, therefore the plate can be easily removed from back side of the camera when the packing material in the recess becomes 10 lean and rays may steal in. The bottom of the recess is sloped enlarging its width at the external surface of the flange, therefore thepacking material in the recess presses the-inner side of the frame by its expanding force when the 1 cover plate is fixed to the surface of the flange.

According to this invention, the frames which form the bellows are oblong so that they do not rotate when the bellows are folded or unfolded. Since the cover plates of the packing recesses 20 are detachable'from the back side of the camera, the packing material can be replaced without taking up the bellows in pieces and requiring the use of any special tools.

What Iclaim is:--

Improvements in a camera comprising bel lowsmade of square frames slidably and telescopically fitted one by one, each frame being provided with an inner fiange at the front end and an outer fiange at the-other end so as to 30 have the outer edge of the outer fiangetouch theinnersurfaceofthenextlargerframeand the inner edge of the inner fiange touch the outersurfaceofthenextsmallerframaareceas provided .along the outer surface of the outer 86 fiang'e of each frame for receiving a packing material therein, and a cover plate detachably fitted to the back surface of the outer fianlc forming the backside of -the aforementioned recesssothatthepackingmaterialcanbem O placedfrom-thehacksideofthecamera.

' TOYOJIRO 'ramrs. 

